2020 March endgame

[scarlett2018]

This is the endgame schedule for March Release.
The release note: https://github.com/microsoft/nni/releases/tag/v1.5

Schedule (this may change)

End game master: @liuzhe-lz
Code freeze: 3.31
Endgame: 4.3
Bug bash #2 end: 4.7
Release: 4.8

Bug Bash

• DLTS @leckie-chn (waiting upstream bugfix)
• Model compression @chicm-ms 4.2 (PR Fix pruner issues #2265)
  • Framework refactor
  • Example refactor
  • Speedup example refactor
  • Refactor the logic of applying mask file
  • Validation of configuration
• AutoNLP @QuanluZhang 4.1
• NAS Visualization @QuanluZhang 4.2
• TF2 ENAS @ultmaster move to dev branch
• PBT @liuzhe-lz 4.2
• Web UI @SparkSnail 4.2
  • Draw intermediate number keys when intermediate is dict
  • Show error message when final result doesn't have default metric
  • support show NaN in detail table
  • Remove final val in intermediate result
  • Update succeed table, access refresh time
  • search space | config | table format error in Windows
  • Fix showing final result dict crash error

Other Work Items

• Cut branch
• Build testing package
• Complete documentation works
• Release note
• Upload

Pending

• Merge master to v1.5
• Shinai's PR
• (?) Remove old example @ yuge
• Check string metrics @ liuzhe